EVE Escalation to Inferno

Reported by CCP Manifest | 2012.04.30 00:00:00

Greetings Pilots!

SciFiMagically, each year brings more pilots living, warring, trading and socializing in the EVE universe than the year before. “SciFiMagically” because, well, that’s not really happening in other MMOs.

And later this year we’re adding some dudes on those planets around you—dudes that you will be able to shoot at. It’s like the biggest universe in gaming is going to get bigger without actually expanding? SciFiMagic .

Each year also adds more layers of depth, richness and nuance to the EVE experience. Not quite like a fine wine. Not like stanky aged cheese. And definitely not like “preserved” hakarl .

More like this:

This lush, limitless environment full of epic battles, clever tactics, camaraderie, and antagony is built upon three basic, humble pillars.

• Death must have meaning.
• Everyone plays in the same shardless universe
• Sandbox design  fosters  human interaction that creates  emergence that fuels a limitless storytelling engine

And that’s basically the formula to get EVE to this point.

Yet the structure misses a single crucial material. It lacks the catalyzer that CCP, the Mostly-Benevolent Space Gods, could not design in all of our omniscient, omnipotent omniVikingery.

A terrifying, powerful ingredient thrown into the mix nearly nine years ago to the day…

...The pilots themselves

We don’t want to get too into the philosophy of games and social organizations and all those academic shenanigans, so let’s just pause to remember that you, through the individual and collective forces of your imagination and will, have made your own EVE experience.

In doing so over time, you have made EVE.

YOU ARE EVE.

mind. blown.

And that’s a gorgeous thing. More gorgeous than shader model 3, tessellations and upcoming missile effects *